Process for producing ornamental multicolored raised design



Jan. 9 B. SCHWARTZ 2,269,740

I PROCESS OF PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL MULTICOLORED RAISED DESIGN Filed Feb. 15, 1940 FIG. 1.

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5 5 L I LIGHT awe DARKBLU PARKGRE LIGHT GEE E DRIP/1 YELLOW INVENTOR. Benjamin Schwarlz Patented Jan. 13, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PROCESS FOR PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL MULTICOLORED RAISED DESIGN Benjamin Schwartz, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application February 15, 1940, Serial No. 318,996

Claims.

My invention relates to the mode of producing ornamental raised figures or designs upon metal plates or the like surfaces.

An object of my invention is to simplify the manner of producing a sculpture-like has-relief raised ornamental design or the like on a hard surface.

Another object is such a method or process that is inexpensive and that needs a minimum of skill to follow.

Yet another object is to provide a process that produces a lustrous design of various colors.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a plan view showing a plate having an ornamental design produced by my improved method or process.

Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the plate covered only with white wax, the first step in the improved process, one corner of the plate being shown uncovered.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the configuration or outline of the design formed on the wax surface, the second step in the process.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the next step in the process, that of melting crayon over the surface by means of a tool and applying the molten crayon to the surface.

Fig. 5 is a cross section taken on the plane of the line 5--5 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out my invention, I use a metal plate 5, one side of which is preferably polished with a fine powdered pumice and mayor may not be blackened by a solution of weak silver nitrate. The plate is then heated on a gas stove or the like and a specially prepared compound of white wax 6 is melted and thinly spread over the treated surface of the plate. This wax may consist of white beeswax, zinc oxid, rosin, Burgundy pitch and Venice turpentine. Such a wax tenaciously adheres to the plate and permits a clean out of a design by a tool.

The next step is to cut, mark or impress on the wax surface 6 the outline or configuration I of a design such as the design of a country scene shown in Fig. 1. The design may be made by a sharp tool cutting into the wax, or by a marking tool making a mark on the surface of the wax in any suitable manner. Fig. 3 shows the plate after the outline has been traced on the waxed surface.

When the desired configuration has been completed, as will be seen from Fig. 3, a meltable wax compound, such as an ordinary stick of commercial wax crayon 8, is melted and the molten wax crayon spread over the white waxed surface within the confines of the lines of the configuration.

As will be seen from Fig. 4, I preferably hold the wax crayon 8 over the surface of the plate and. with a continuously heated tool 9 melt the crayon and direct the molten crayon onto the configuration on the plate or other suitable support.

The molten crayon I0 applied to the configuration will form the desired design and is permitted to cool, dry and harden. Any molten crayon that may have spread beyond the lines of the configuration may be removed by a suitable tool.

When the molten crayon becomes dry and hard it presents a very lustrous, glossy and rounded surface.

The crayon 8 used is a colored crayon and a crayon of different color is used for each part or element of the design as desired. In the example of design shown in Fig. 1, the sky is light blue, the road dark yellow, the leaves of the tree dark green and the trunk brown, the pond dark blue, the grass light green, the hills brown and the house red with a yellow roof.

While I have described and illustrated the improved process in connection with a metal plate, it will be understood that any other suitable :hard supporting surface may be used, such as a pasteboard sheet or the like, and the outline of the design may be marked thereon by a suitable marking device, such as a pencil or the like.

I claim:

1. The process of producing an ornamental multicolored raised design on a hard supporting surface consisting of treating said surface with white wax, marking the outline of a desired design on the waxed surface and spreading colored wax crayon on said treated surface within the confines of said outline.

2. The process of producing an ornamental multicolored raised design on'a metal plate or the like consisting of spreading a thin layer of white wax over one surface of the plate, cutting the outline of a desired design through the layer of white wax and spreading colored molten wax on said layer of white wax within the confinesof said outline.

3. The process of producing an ornamental multicolored raised design on a metal plate or the like consisting of spreading a thin layer of white wax over one surface of the plate, cutting the outline of a desired design through the layer of white wax and simultaneously melting colored wax crayon over the white wax surface and dropping the molten colored crayon onto the white wax surface within the confines of the outline of the design, a different colored crayon being used for each adjacent element of the design.

forming the outline of a design on said waxed surface, melting a, colored wax crayon with a continuously heated tool and directing the flow of said melted material with said tool onto the waxed surfaces within the confines of the outline thereon and spreading with said tool the melted crayon onto said waxed surface within the confines of said outline, a different colored wax crayon being used for each adjacent element multicolored, sculpture-like, has-relief design by 10 of the design.

spreading wax on a hard supporting surface, by

BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ. 

